Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

This is accurate ;)

(via https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html)

Want to help out with development of Toot!? I have been doing some large internal rewriting, and probably introduced some exciting new bugs in the process, so I thought it might be best to do a public beta for this version to shake them out a bit before release.

The link to join the beta is here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/x0MbQhMF

Only join if you are happy to deal with some bugs! Or, if you want a free trial of Toot! and don’t mind a potential bug or two.

Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

This is absurd. Woman goes into early labor, goes to an in-network hospital, but the doctors worked for an out of network hospital? So they parents are on the hook for $12K? RIDICULOUS.

Please shut up forever about how cool it is to "shop for your healthcare" LITERALLY NO ONE WANTS TO DO THAT. This is "shopping for your healthcare": being wheeled into the ER and having to check to make sure EVERY PERSON is in your network. Completely impractical and ridiculous.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/30/1151778684/a-baby-spent-36-days-at-an-in-network-hospital-why-did-her-parents-get-a-huge-bi

Seeking investors to build a greenhouse for people to walk their dogs in during winter.

Tyre Nichols. Philando Castile. Maurice Gordon. Ronell Foster. Walter Scott. Samuel DuBose. Sandra Bland. Daunte Wright.

Each of their lives were stolen by police. All were pulled over during traffic stops.

Remove police from traffic enforcement.

We cannot let this continue.

#Skepticrat 192: M&Mpire Strikes Back Edition

On this week's episode: The US addresses the balance of trade with Brazil by exporting insane insurrections ... Ron DeSantis continues trying to make it illegal to learn just how racist he is ... And Tucker Carlson tells us about the dangers of M&Ms and the power of cigarettes.

🔊: https://audioboom.com/posts/8238434-skepticrat191-m-mpire-strikes-back-edition

> _“Truly, mainstream #media is the great Mugger of Reality. Even when its individual stories are rock solid, it promotes a deeply false Big Picture of the world. And unless you have the intellectual steel to_ constantly _remind yourself, ‘This is a horribly misleading perspective,’ consuming media tends to make you believe this deeply false Big Picture.”_

— [Bryan Caplan](https://betonit.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-is-worse-than-silence)